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A critical step - 08/02/2015(Full story)A July 17 application by BP to the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission for amendments to area injection orders for the Prudhoe Bay field marks a critical step toward the possibility of building a major gas pipeline for the export of natural gas from the North Slope. The application requests a....

CPAI selling CI assets - 08/02/2015(Full story)ConocoPhillips Alaska Inc. is selling its Cook Inlet properties.
The largest oil company in the state said it expects to open a data room in August to market its wholly owned North Cook Inlet unit and its stake of the Beluga River unit.
“While historically significant to the company's investment in....

LNG clears tax hurdle - 08/02/2015(Full story)The British Columbia government has locked in a tax regime for the liquefied natural gas industry, certain it has won on both the economic and political fronts.
But the administration of Premier Christy Clark continues to face friendly fire from with its own Liberal party and the industry.
Clark wra....

Shell drillships are in Chukchi - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)Shell's drilling vessels, the Noble Discoverer and the Transocean Polar Pioneer, have reached the area of the Chukchi Sea where Shell plans to conduct exploratory drilling, company spokeswoman Megan Baldino told Petroleum News July 28.
Shell has previously said that it plans to start its drilling c....

Kitchen Lights still on target - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)Furie Operating Alaska's Kitchen Lights gas field development offshore in Cook Inlet continues to move forward. The laying of the gas pipeline from the field's offshore platform has been completed, with the pipe-laying barge stationed in Anchorage, preparing to depart for Seattle, Bruce Webb, Furie....

Chugach gas contract extended - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)After years of concern that Cook Inlet's natural gas supplies might dry up and imports could be required, further evidence has surfaced that Hilcorp Alaska's development program in the basin is paying off, with Chugach Electric Association applying to extend its natural gas sale and purchase agreeme....

New finds on west side of Cook Inlet - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)Having indications of a petroleum system and being the site of some exploration drilling in the early 1900s, the Iniskin Peninsula on the west side of Alaska's Cook Inlet has long intrigued oil explorers. And, as part of a multi-year program of research into the geology of Cook Inlet, led by Alaska'....

AOGCC moves hearings to LIO - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)The Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission has moved hearings scheduled for Aug. 27 and Sept. 1 from its Anchorage offices to the Anchorage Legislative Information Office at 716 W. 4th Avenue.
The Aug. 27 hearing is on a request from Prudhoe Bay unit operator BP Exploration (Alaska) that the co....

NWT touts Arctic line - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)Enbridge and TransCanada, Canada's two premier pipeline companies, have offered only a guarded response to word from the Northwest Territories Industry Minister Dave Ramsay that his government has been talking to unidentified companies about shipping crude oil through the Arctic.
In recent interview....

Beckham named deputy DO&G director - 08/02/2015(Login to read Full story)Jim Beckham has been appointed deputy director of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources Division of Oil and Gas.
Beckham, who took the position July 21, has a Bachelor of Science in marine science from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and more than 30 years of professional leadership, management a....

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